GE Aerospace engineer Liang Tang asks students questions about their airships during the GE Aerospace Foundation’s Next ...

The History of Diving Museum on Saturday, Aug. 15, will celebrate William Beebe and Otis Barton's record-breaking dive in the Bathysphere on the same date ...

At the peak of linguistic diversity, humans may have spoken up to 10 times as many languages as we do today. An immunologist who’s been on both sides of vaccine hesitancy talks about what drives it, ...

New research suggests that a surprisingly simple intervention—reminding people of their shared values—can nudge them toward less extreme views.

Position-sensitive detectors underpin discovery and innovation across a broad range of fields from tracking particle ...

Students will have a new opportunity to explore science through a 360-degree immersive learning experience as Mid-America ...

Castrillo, an astrophysicist, returned to her remote village in Spain to be in the path of totality. Hundreds of partygoers ...

Two scholars from Germany, who also are adjunct professors at the University of Wyoming, will present “The World Minus the ...

Four words in a Hank Green video—“I appreciate the pushback”—were enough to make some viewers suspect the voice of artificial ...

Trees might look silent, but scientists have discovered they're constantly exchanging information. Most of this happens underground through vast networks of fungi that connect tree roots, often called ...

Astronomers have discovered GJ 3378b, a new Earth-like planet. NBC News' Gadi Schwartz talks to Harvard Astrophysicist Avi Loeb about the new planet and whether or not it has an atmosphere and is ...

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